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The Road To Fixing Illegal Immigration Illegal immigration is a big problem in the United States of America, and it is beginning to grow into a larger one. In 2014, there were 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants in America (“5 Facts about Illegal Immigration in the U.S.”), compared to the population of 318.9 million people in the entire country (Dinan). These immigrants currently take up only 3.5 percent of the nation’s population. The rate of illegal immigration is only rising, according to the Pew Research Center (“5 Facts about Illegal Immigration in the U.S”). The main cause of this is immigrants secretly entering over the border, without getting caught by agents (“5 Facts about Illegal Immigration in the U.S.”). This is because …show more content…

According to a reporter from www.whitehouse.gov, some people believe that immigrants are not trying to cause harm (“Continuing Strengthen Border Security”). They just want to live in the United States, which they hope will be a much better place than where they used to live. Also, some immigrants do not realize they are entering illegally. They think they are just moving on to a new country, with a better life. The Washington Times state that children are a large population of unauthorized immigrants (Dinan). Children get brought to America with their parents being illegal immigrants, and do not figure it out until they are older (Dinan). They do not mean to illegally enter the United States, and they do not want to cause harm (Dinan). Although many illegal immigrants aren’t trying to cause problems, they are (“How Does Illegal Immigration Hurt The Economy”). They are taking our jobs, they are making our wages lower, and they don’t pay their taxes (“How Does Illegal Immigration Hurt The Economy”). The unemployment rate is 5.0 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ("Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject”). There is also a possibility the illegal immigrants could be terrorists or a criminals. Unauthorized immigrants have a likely possibility of putting the safety of our country at

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